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...anti-gluttony campaign. Insurance company surveys show that during the food-short war years, the people were healthier than before. But Finns have not taken the hint. Said Tailor Eirik Dronstedt, who has been busy since the Christmas holidays letting out seams: "About 90% of my customers have gotten fatter in the last two years. I can only remember one who has gotten thinner, and he was a man returning from his honeymoon...
...thought they had won, and the officials were divided among themselves. The three judges assigned to pick first and second voted 2 to 1 for Wilt; the third-place judge voted for Gehrmann. The photofinish camera crew had snapped a picture, but that was no help; the judges had gotten in the way. The chief judge stepped in and broke the deadlock. His choice, and the announced winner: Don Gehrmann. Both men were credited with the same time: 4:09.3, fastest competitive mile either of them had ever...
...disemboweled murder victim. You see plenty of Paris in the daytime from the top of the Eiffel tower; now you see fully as much of it at night, as the camera and Maigret follow Radek on a tour of all the local hotspots while he generously unloads his ill-gotten loot. The movie's best scene takes place in one of these lush Pigalle bistros, as a dozen ambulant violinsts toy with Radek's ambivalent emotions...
...jumpy, his shots were better placed, his forehand volley was faster and his anticipation more acute. Big Jake had noticed something else. Said he: "I'm the big difference in Gonzales' game. I haven't been able to keep the pressure on him. I've gotten kind of stale...
...Great Pain." He had gotten invitations to other bicentennial Bach festivals in Europe and the U.S. Among them: bids to play in Strasbourg with the great Bach organist, Albert Schweitzer, and in Leipzig's venerable Thomas-Kirche, where Bach himself had been cantor. He had turned them all down, although "It gave me great pain to refuse...